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The role of point of care (POC) diagnostics in the medical field has rapidly grown in the last few decades into a multi-billion dollar industry. For many diagnostic applications, POC diagnostics technologies are rapidly displacing in-vitro laboratory based diagnostics because POC systems allow for more rapid and effective diagnosis and triage, which leads to improved patient outcomes and reduced h ...

Many sensors have been and are being deployed to detect the activities of malicious insiders and enable attribution to the proper individuals. The ADAMS program attempts to utilize the activity evidence captured by these sensors to proactively anticipate forthcoming malicious behavior by detecting the precursors of that malicious behavior. We will facilitate this goal by developing a specialize ...

RTISFS will support identifying and defending against malicious insiders functionalities through: a wider range of access limitations; immutable, non-alerting forensic audit trail; dynamic environment supporting interactions with users without revealing the depth of forensic and enforcement capabilities; scripted interrogatories to assist separating anomalies attributed to malicious insiders from ...

There is currently no convenient, effective way to detect, identify, and geolocate (DIG) personal UHF/VHF radio communications devices in field operations. These are commonly used by adversary command, control, and spotter activity. The techniques used by special ops, search and rescue, and electronic warfare personnel do not satisfy this need because soldiers in field situations lack the time, ...

Current cooling systems are limited by the heat carrying capacity of the fluid, which is in turn limited by the pumping technology to move the fluid. This proposal allows a much higher heat capacity in the fluid, due to allowing the fluid to go from a 5% to 95% quality within the cooling circuit, which is enabled by an innovative and unique pumping technology that will be developed in this proposa ...

The purpose of this topic is to develop a pump that can pump two-phase, liquid and vapor mixtures of common refrigerants and heat transfer fluids, without oil lubrication. The challenges of pumping in this regime are well known: Two-phase, liquid-vapor refrigerant mixtures are a mixture of saturated liquid and saturated vapor, by definition meaning that there is zero net positive suction head. M ...

The objective of this proposal is to further explore and refine the use of hydrogen based propellants for use in high velocity gun systems. This proposal will build on the ongoing and very novel research being conducted with direct combustion of hydrogen-oxygen mixtures at high initial pressures. While the research performed to date has demonstrated the performance potential inherent in this app ...

Social network analysis is a powerful method for making sense of an increasingly interconnected world. Developing social network analysis tools requires datasets with which to test them, but sharing datasets is problematic because of privacy issues. Initial attempts to anonymize network datasets proved ineffective due to de-anonymization attacks that leveraged publically available information to i ...

SED Technology LLC proposes a feasibility study to determine if the proposed theory that IR can potentially answer the requirement of providing a 3-factor authentication capability. The proposed capability will allow continuous identification and can interact with computers on a periodic or on request basis to validate the identity of the soldier in MOPP 4 with no interference with mission accompl ...

Human Socio-Cultural Behavioral (HSCB)-based models have the potential to help tactical commanders assess situations and project consequences of actions in counterinsurgency (COIN) missions. Unfortunately, the potential utility of these models been limited due to a lack of area of interest (AOI) data traditionally collected by local subject matter experts (SMEs). The short supply of SMEs has creat ...